I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets . . .

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

Education is understanding relationships.

All my life I have risen regularly at four o'clock and have gone into the woods and talked to God. There He gives me my orders for the day.

No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.

As I worked on projects which fulfilled a real human need forces were working through me which amazed me. I would often go to sleep with an apparently insoluble problem. When I woke the answer was there. Why, then, should we who believe in Christ be so surprised at what God can do with a willing man in a laboratory? Some things must be baffling to the critic who has never been born again.